Hi!
When playing back audio only files with e.g. the MP3 or the Podcatcher plugin ( pmAudioOnly mode ), the playback suddenly stops, if a recording from the primary device starts (I'm using a full featured and a budget card with 1.3.48). There's no problem, if I force the recording to the budget card.
Besides this, if I restart the audio playback while the recording is running from the primary device, I can't see the live picture anymore. If I start the recording, stop the recording and then start the audio playback, the screen is black as well. If I switch to another channel and back before starting the audio playback, it correctly shows the live picture again.
I'm not sure, whether this is a VDR bug or a plugin bug, but I assume the problem can be found in VDR. The plugins initialize the player with cPlayer(pmAudioOnly).
Any ideas?
bye,
Tobias
On 26 Apr 2006 Tobias Grimm listaccount@e-tobi.net wrote:
When playing back audio only files with e.g. the MP3 or the Podcatcher plugin ( pmAudioOnly mode ), the playback suddenly stops, if a recording from the primary device starts (I'm using a full featured and a budget card with 1.3.48). There's no problem, if I force the recording to the budget card.
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I'm not sure, whether this is a VDR bug or a plugin bug, but I assume the problem can be found in VDR. The plugins initialize the player with cPlayer(pmAudioOnly).
This has been discussed some time ago.
As a recording has to (at least potentionaly) switch the channel and the live video occupies the device, the player has to be aborted. If you would use "black" mode in MP3-plugin, the player won't be aborted (device not occupied).
When you're recording on primary device and watching live TV, VDR uses transfer mode. Transfer mode counts as a player and there can only be one player at a time. So if you starts MP3-plugin in this situation, transfer mode is aborted and you ends up with no video.
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Regards.
Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
Transfer mode counts as a player and there can only be one player at a time. So if you starts MP3-plugin in this situation, transfer mode is aborted and you ends up with no video. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
So what exactly happens, when I start a recording, stop it and then start the audio playback, but don't see the live video? Doesn't VDR switch back from transfer mode, when the recording is stopped?
Tobias
On 26 Apr 2006 Tobias Grimm listaccount@e-tobi.net wrote:
Stefan Huelswitt wrote:
Transfer mode counts as a player and there can only be one player at a time. So if you starts MP3-plugin in this situation, transfer mode is aborted and you ends up with no video. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
So what exactly happens, when I start a recording, stop it and then start the audio playback, but don't see the live video? Doesn't VDR switch back from transfer mode, when the recording is stopped?
Exactly, the transfer mode is stopped at the next channel switch only.
Regards.
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